Grandpa's Flowers Post-Mortem (Focus Stack, 74 Images, Re-stacked 5 Times Upon Itself), Lenticular Print, 2017

40x50", Lenticular Print, Mounted to Sintra. Edition of 3. These lenticular prints were created to question reality within the confines of digital media, more specifically within the realm of Photoshop. Each of these images were created utilizing digital tools that combine multiple photographs into image-stacks based solely on focus. Photoshop sees "focus" as the difference between two pixels, light vs. dark, and algorithmically determines which have the most contrast across the images; usually doing a poor job of it. I find the computational output of this process fascinating, as it creates these micro clusters of pixel based information, so I separated each layer of the algorithm and printed them as separate planes of focus within the lenticular. These prints allow the viewer to enter within the digital realm, to lose themselves within the layers of pixels, and to question what they are seeing. It is easy to become disoriented to reality when confronted with these prints, just as we continue to become disoriented from our own realities as we rely more heavily on the digital space with ever more frequency.